Tag: energy

  • Residents Voice New Concerns on Gainesville, FL Biomass Incinerator

    –  by Morgan Watkins, August 5, 2014, Gainesville Sun Local residents worried about the biomass plant showed up Tuesday evening for a public meeting on its draft Title V air operation permit, which could be approved this fall, to make their concerns known. Folks milled around the Hall of Heroes Community Room at the Gainesville Police…

  • USDA Splurges Millions on Biomass Power Incinerators

    [More taxpayer money funding private corporations to log National Forests under the unscientific guise of “wildfire prevention.” -Ed.] –  US Department of Agriculture, July 23, 2014, Office of Communications Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has selected 36 energy facilities in 14 states to accept biomass deliveries supported by…

  • Behind the Colorado Fracking Betrayal

    – by Joel Dyer, August 7, 2014, Boulder Weekly So what went wrong with ballot measures 88 and 89? How could these popular citizen’s initiatives written to give local communities more control over drilling and fracking in their neighborhoods have failed to get on the ballot? Well, the first mistake Colorado citizens made was they trusted…

  • 2014: The Year of the Smokestack Smackdown [Energy Justice Now, August 2014]

    Prepare yourself for the August issue of Energy Justice Network’s new publication, Energy Justice Now! – “2014 a Banner Year for Victories” – “Derailing NYC Trash Train in Chester, PA” – “Vermont Yankee: Out of the Fission and Into the Fire?” …and more!!! Please share the August 2014 issue of Energy Justice Now with your friends, colleagues, neighbors, media, and elected officials! Subscribe to monthly…

  • Vermont Yankee: Out of the Fission and Into the Fire?

    – by Ann Darling, The Safe and Green Campaign The Vermont Yankee nuclear power station in southeastern Vermont will close in December of this year after operating for over 40 years. The owner, Entergy Nuclear, is based in New Orleans and is the second largest nuclear power company in the U.S. As a member of the Safe…

  • Biomass Industry Lashes Out at Solar Subsidies

    [The heavily-subsidized, polluting biomass energy industry cries foul over getting a smaller slice of the taxpayer pie than smokestack-free solar energy in California. -Ed.]  –  by Bonner R. Cohen, July 15, 2014, Heartland The California Wind Energy Association and other renewable energy groups criticized a new law extending special tax breaks to the California solar power…

  • Wood Stoves a Major Contributor to “Unhealthy” Air Days in Clallam County, WA

    Read The Biomass Monitor’s coverage of the story behind these air pollution tests: “Tracking Biomass Air Pollution on the Olympic Peninsula”  –  by Arwyn Rice, July 14, 2014, Peninsula Daily News   PORT ANGELES — Air quality in central and eastern Clallam County is generally good, but wood burning for home heating and transportation-related pollutants are contributing to occasional “unhealthy”…

  • Group Calls for Probe of Nova Scotia Biomass Logging

    [The forest footprint for a biomass incinerator is massive. Will be interesting to see if any probe is done in regards to this facility. -Ed.] –  by Erin Pottie, June 27, 2014, Cape Breton Bureau A Cape Breton environmental group is calling for an emergency review of harvesting practices at Nova Scotia Power’s biomass plant in…

  • Shuttered Texas Biomass Incinerator to Reopen

    –  June 23, 2014, Bioenergy Insight InventivEnergy, an asset management firm, has selected NRG Energy Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of NRG Energy, to restart the Aspen Power biomass plant located in Lufkin, Texas. NRG will also operate and maintain the facility once it resumes operation. The plant first opened in August 2011 and was the…

  • July issue of Energy Justice Now: Building Movement Solidarity

    Are you ready for the July issue of Energy Justice Network’s new publication, Energy Justice Now?! -“Why Solidarity is Needed More Than Ever between Coal, Gas and Incinerator Fighters“ -“The Ten Commandments of Movement Solidarity”  -“Cowardly Climate Report Urges Business as Usual“ …and more!!! Please share the July 2014 issue of Energy Justice Now with your friends, colleagues, neighbors, media, and…